Hacker infiltrates Royal Navy website

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The Royal Navy’s website was temporarily offline today after a suspected
Romanian hacker gained access and posted a message.

No “malicious damage” was caused by the cyber attack, which was under
investigation, a Navy spokesman said.

The hacker, operating under the name TinKode, claimed to have compromised the
site on Friday. A message posted by TinKode on Twitter, the social
networking site read: “Minister (sic) Of Defence United Kingdom (www.mod.uk)
- HACKED”.

It gave a link to a website where the individual also claimed to have hacked
US military and other official sites as well as the video-sharing resource
YouTube.